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(By Andrew MacKie-Mason)

• Two LAPD cops shot two women (one 71, the other 47). The cops thought they were firing at Christopher Dorner, an ex-cop fugitive who's wanted for murder and who's threatened to continue killing. Don't worry, though: the LAPD has this well in hand. They have placed the two cops on administrative leave, and will require them to visit a psychologist before they return to duty. I guess there's some concern that the officers might have some temporary mental problems that need to be worked out before they're fit to continue walking the street with guns?

• Israeli fans of the Beitar Jerusalem football/soccer team attacked the club's administrative office. The club's crime, apparently, was daring to hire two Muslim players. Other fans demonstrated more tolerance, by limiting themselves to chanting anti-Arab slogans.

• Speaking of Israel, last month they admitted (5 years, apparently, after the story started to leak) that they (as in the government, not fringe groups) had been systematically injecting Ethiopian Jewish immigrants with birth control in order to depress the reproductive rate of that ethnic group. (Israel here, of course, is merely repeating the atrocities of America past.)

• Idaho Senator John Goedde proposed requiring that all Idaho high school students read and pass a test on Atlas Shrugged in order to graduate. This is an appropriate time, I think, to dredge up John Rogers' assessment of that book: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

• Our good friends, the Westboro Baptist Church, have filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court arguing that the government should continue to discriminate against same-sex couples in the marriage institution. It is probably the first constitutional law brief filed in the Supreme Court that fails to cite the Constitution. Their Table of Authorities does include, however, such relevant works as "A Spiritual and Ethical Compendium to the Torah and Talmud" and "Back to the Beginning: Noah's Biblical Flood: New Evidence Suggests It Happened," along with 35 passages from the Bible. Oh, and 8 American court opinions.

• Last month, Representative Kyrsten Sinema was sworn in to the US House of Representatives with her left hand on a copy of the Constitution (the document she was swearing to support and defend) instead of a Bible (a book that has no official relationship to the position in question). Good for her.

• Ryan Jepson at the University of North Carolina seems to want to ban contraception.

• This is several months old, but it's worth calling it out. Britain apparently thinks that it's OK to prosecute people for posting political opinions on Facebook. There's much wrong with America, but we haven't disappeared this far down the rabbit hole yet.

• The chairman of the Illinois Republican Party supports marriage equality. This is good news, but the fact that it's news at all is a sad fact about the state of American politics.

• World Net Daily, a totally legitimate news source, accused CBS of "pushing a gay agenda" by using Neil Patrick Harris in an advertisement, and "mocking Christians" by having NPH write the date of the Super Bowl in eyeblack. You know, like Tim Tebow did with Bible verses. And NPH is gay. So, umm.... yeah.